Boris Godunow
Opera in four acts with a prologue
Libretto
Modest Mussorgskij based on the historical drama by Alexander Pushkin and "History of the Russuan state" by Nikoöai Karamzin
Premiere
8 February 1874, St Petersburg (Marinskij-Theatre)
Cast
BORIS GODUNOW (bass)
KSENIA (soprano)
FYODOR (mezzo-soprano)
NURSE (contralto)
PRINCE VASILY IVANOVICH SHUISKY (tenor)
ANDREI SHCHELKALOV (baritone)
PIMEN (basss)
GRIGORI (later the Pretender Dimitri) (tenor)
MARINA MNISHEK (mezzo-soprano)
RANGONI (baritone)
VARLAAM (bass)
MISSAIL (tenor)
HOSTESS OF THE INN (mezzo-soprano)
SIMPLETON (tenor)
NIKITICH (bass-baritone)
MITUKHA (baritone)
BOYAR IN ATTENDANCE (tenor)
KRUSHCHOV (silent)
LAVITZKY (bass-baritone)
CHERNIKOVSKY (bass-baritone)
CHORUS
boyars and their children, streltsy, soldiers, police officers, Polish noblemen and ladies, Sandomir girls, blind mendicants, people of Moscow, urchins, vagabonds
Place
Russia and Poland
Time
1598 - 1605